The georgian art of gambling takes readers on a wild tour through high and low society in georgian england to reveal all aspects of the widespread love of gambling from detailed accounts of the fashionable card and dice games of the day as played in fine homes and gambling houses alike to wagering on blood sports like cockfighting and bull baiting and such less gruesome affairs as boxing and cricket claire cock starkey brings to life the world of jane austen beau brummel georgiana . The georgian art of gambling takes readers on a wild tour through high and low society in georgian england to reveal all aspects of the widespread love of gambling. The georgian art of gambling takes the reader on a miscellaneous tour through high and low society to reveal all aspects of gambling in the georgian era descriptions of the most fashionable card and dice games of the day are interspersed with snippets of contemporary anti gambling pamphlets descriptions of the most famous and degenerate . The volume was the georgian art of gambling by claire cock starkey and it is a book that i hugely recommend to fans of the 18th century whether gamblers or not from the highest to the lowest the georgians just loved to gamble and this book takes readers on a whistle stop tour of the peculiarly 18th century craze within its pages you will . The georgian art of gambling takes the reader on a miscellaneous tour through high and low society to reveal all aspects of gambling in the georgian era descriptions of the most fashionable card and dice games of the day are interspersed with snippets of contemporary anti gambling pamphlets descriptions of the most famous and degenerate